Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-12-08
4 NEW MOVE.

The Yankton. Omaha n Northwestern
In The Zelda RropositEon for a
Ssreat Railway system.
Omaha Republican. 9th: YESTERDAY
this paper commented on an editorial
from the West Point Republican in re-
TO the trade u northern Me-
braska and Dekota We have to-day
been informed that The initiatory steps
have been taken to cover this field by q
new company with the titIs OF the
Yankton, Omaha i Northwestern.
As to the Fremont, Elkhorn 3 Mis-
souri, Valley railroad, the impression is
erroneous thatit is hostile to Omaha.
and Nebraska interests in favor OF other
points. That road is doing valuable
work In making the South Omaha
market what il iB, as q glance at the ofi-
eial records show.
But, with it's great Investments west
ofthe Missouri 10 still leaves d vast region
u~nocoHpied by railroad facilities. This
must be covered by q new line, and il
should be d in the interest OF Omaha,
as an Omaha road.
The Republican has time and again
described the best route from Omaha to
to she northwest. Jay Gould has had
his attention drawn to IL, and survey ors
have gone over the line, evidently to
serve the purposes of that mAgnate and
his Missouri Pacific in the near future.
The cheapest route would be to strike
che Papillion valley and run northwesi
to Stanton and from thence to the
Niobrara and on to Bismarck. Al Stanton
q line can be7un direct to Yankton and
across the Missouri up through tho rich
end fertile counties qf Dakots. A,
suitable POINTS aiine can be run through
the central part Of northern Nebraska
and further north to Deadwood and
beyond.
This IN. time will mako d great railwaJ
system ssrIng every saalient point in
the west and wall bs equal IN ite impor-
tance to Omaha, that the Chicago &
Northwestern 10 TO Chicago. The later
systsm sprsng from : lot OF fraRmentary
roads through the sagacity OF William
B. Ogden. Samuel j.. Iilden, and othst
PROMINENT hnAnoiers.
Ine inception and completion Of that
system gave Chicago much of it's COM
manding influence through the north
west. 1t remsins to the seen what
Omaha can do in this vast section of the
new west and the Republican believes
the time 10 ripe for the movement to
commence.
To further this, o company has been
formed to build as1oad from Omaha to
1ankton VIA Wayne. III Omaha and
Douglas county will vote $35D.0 900 in
bonds, the company agrees to- raise
enough to make up 500 GOO, when q
strong syndicate agrees TO build the line
provided it will not cost more than ST.
600 per mile. CT ia estimated il will
not cost mere than $14,500 per mile)
While they ask the CITY and county
bonds TO be voted, one are to be issued
UNTIL the road is completed to South
EfRnkion. q distanuo of shout 100 mile.
believe this $3.50 ,000.a very small figure
when compared to the material wealth o
Omaha and Douglas county, now mount
ing up into the hundreds of millions. II
return they will give the tfunt
of q great railway system. which in
few years . be made to consist of a
least three thousand miles and upwards
Az an example to the business men o,
Omaha OF what railroads will do for
city--when they are welcomed with
spirit OF enterprise and lIberality-wt
have but to point, among other flourish
ing cities. to Chicago with its magnifi-
cent railroad system and its nearly Z
million Of wids-Rwake citizens. Vel
do WI remember its first line of road ii
1850--the old "Galena q Ghioag,
Union" shen running out some sixteei
miies-Rnd now a part d<Sthe great Chi
cage q Northwestern system, covering
thousands OF miles. Chicago Was SheE
q city OF less than $4,000 inhabitants, Of
less than one-third the sizs OF onr owl
city Of the present time. We also wit
the great railroad event in It's history
the fret train that ever Dame over d lin,
Of railroad from tine sea-board. but 8 fe,
years later-that of the Michigan South
ern. II was deemed of 30 much import
ance that the citizens turned out aImos
EN- masse to give it q Welcome. Even d
this date Chicago was not one
half as large as Omaha now ie
But then, as now, it possessed wide
awake, liberal, far-seeing and big-hsarte
men who had not only an abiding fat
In the future Of their city, but VIII
made this faith almost o religion Wit
themselves, their associates an
successors. II was this faith--this cssi
ing their broad upon she waters-thi
whole-souled energy and liberality-
that created faith in others and invite
feyeign capital--and which not oni
raiasd Chicago from itB ashes, more pee
less than ever but has given her til
grandest railroad system possessed b
any city on the globe.
II Why should Omaha notdollkewise?
There never was o more earnest fat
in Chicago citizens aB to its future tbs
we now have in Omaha but like Oh
cago's public men and capitalists, let /
!, be aetuased with that far seeing pre-
. cience, that individnAissnd culiectiye 81
terprise and Iiheraiitys which, il propel
Iiy and promptly ~exerciseds cannot ia
to produce similar results for our ON
city.
Let Omaha men take hold OF this az
similar enterprises with that detsrmins
? tion, hard work and energy will be snI
TO invite eapital and aid from abroa,
4, and In q surprisingly short period
time, while we may not hope to hui
MP q second Ohicsgo, we can most a
eueedlyI rank nearer to her than many
. our citizenn to day believe possible.
II our men of wealth, our busine
men, our board Of trade our llroinine,
:. citizens generally, will bnt show this
: faith in Omaha aud its future by actir
= with o b~road-guage literally and te
] dering . hesrty welcome to Ieaitima
i railroad and manufacturing enterprise
which 20 hand in hand IN the buiidii
up OF NIL hourishing cities, they will il
~crease their own property and capital
the same proportion that they will insu
the growth and prosperity OF the ci